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A Thesis on the History of the 21st Century: Technocracy, AI, and the End of the World

Reviewing a trio of books by a sextet of ruling-class ideologues, Mathias Fuelling finds an ambient anxiety hanging over a perceived crisis in American capitalism, with visions of bolstering a Silicon Valley-led technocracy fueled by AI investment reflecting American fears over the dawn of a "Chinese Century."

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Diagnosing the Populist Impasse: On Varn and Tutt’s "The People are Not One"

Reviewed by Nicolas D Villarreal – June 24, 2026

Reviewing C. Derick Varn and Daniel Tutt’s new pamphlet, The People are Not One, Nicolas D Villarreal finds a sharp contribution to a debate that may very well shape the future of socialism in our lifetime. – Read review

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Abolish Blue Power

Reviewed by Julian Assele – June 4, 2026

Reviewing Stuart Schrader's Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves, Julian Assele finds a forceful case for why police abolition is not a utopian moral demand but a political necessity emergent from decades of class struggle. – Read review

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Capital’s Musk: A Review of Slobodian and Tarnoff’s “Muskism”

Reviewed by Julian Assele – May 21, 2026

Reviewing Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff's Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed, Julian Assele foregrounds class antagonism and re-situates Muskism as a class strategy to re-discipline globally mobile and fragmented labor, whose efforts only further intensify the imperial and capitalist crisis. – Read review

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The Catechism for American Power

Reviewed by Abel Bisrat – May 11, 2026

Abel Bisrat finds more religious thinking than reasonable argumentation in Shadi Hamid's The Case for American Power. – Read review